List of governors of Barbados

Governors of Barbados (1627–1833)

• Henry Powell, 17 February 1627 – 1628
• William Deane, 1628 – June 1628
• Charles Wolferston, June 1628 – 26 February 1629
• John Powell, 26 February 1629 – 29 August 1629
• Robert Wheatley, 29 August 1629 – September 1629, acting
• Sir William Tufton, 21 December 1629 – 16 July 1630
• Henry Hawley, 1630 – June 1640
• * Richard Peers, 1633–1634, acting for Hawley
• * William Hawley, 1638–1639, acting for Henry Hawley
• Sir Henry Huncks, June 1640 – 1641
• Philip Bell, 1641–1650
• Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, May 1650 – 1651, in dissidence to January 1652
• Sir George Ayscue, October 1651 – 1652
• Daniel Searle, 1652 – July 1660, acting
• Thomas Modyford, July 1660–1660, acting
• Humphrey Walrond, 1660 – August 1663, acting
• Francis Willoughby, 5th Baron Willoughby of Parham, August 1663 – 23 July 1666, restored
• * Henry Willoughby, 1664, acting for the Lord Willoughby of Parham
• Henry Willoughby, July 1666–1667, acting, second time
• William Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham, 1667, acting
• Samuel Barwick, 1667, acting
• Henry Hawley, 1667 – April 1667, acting, second time
• William Willoughby, 6th Baron Willoughby of Parham, April 1667 – 1673
• * Christopher Codrington, 1668–1669, acting for Lord Willoughby of Parham
• Sir Peter Colleton, 1673–1674, acting
• Sir Jonathan Atkins, 1674–1679
• Sir John Witham, 1680–1683, acting
• Sir Richard Dutton, 1683–1685
• Edwyn Stede, 1685–1690, acting
• James Kendall, 1690–1694
• Francis Russell, 1694–1696
• Francis Bond, 1696 – December 1697, acting
• Ralph Grey, December 1697 – 1701
• John Farmer, 1701–1703, acting
• Sir Bevil Granville, 1703–1706
• Mitford Crow, 1707–1710
• George Lillington, 1710–1711, acting
• Robert Lowther, 1711–1720
• * William Sharpe, January 1714–1715, acting for Lowther
• John Frere, 1720–1721, acting
• Samuel Cox, 1721–1722, acting
• Henry Worsley, 1722–1727
• Thomas Catesby Paget, 1727–1731
• James Dotin, 1731, acting, first time
• Walter Chetwynd, 1731–1732
• The Viscount Howe, 1733–29 March 1735
• James Dotin, 1735–1737, acting, second time
• Orlando Bridgeman, 1737–1738
• Humphrey Howarth, 1738
• The Viscount Gage, 1738–1739
• Robert Byng, May 1739 – 1740
• James Dotin, 1740, acting, third time
• Sir Thomas Robinson, 1742–1747
• Henry Grenville, 1747–1756
• Charles Pinfold, 1756–1766
• Samuel Rous, 1766–1768, acting, first time
• William Spry, 1768–1772
• Samuel Rous, 1772, acting, second time
• Edward Hay, 1772–1779
• John Dotin, 1779–1780, acting, first time
• James Cunninghame, 1780–1782
• John Dotin, 1783–1784, acting, second time
• David Parry, 1784–1793
• William Bishop, 1793–1794, acting, first time
• George Poyntz Ricketts, 1794–1800
• William Bishop, 1800–1801, acting, second time
• Francis Humberstone Mackenzie, 1802–1806
• John Spooner, 1806–1810, acting
• Sir George Beckwith, 1810–1815
• Sir James Leith, 10 May 1815 – 16 October 1816
• John Foster Alleyne, 1817, acting
• The Lord Combermere, 1817–1820
• John Brathwaite Skeete, 1820, acting
• Samuel Hinds, 1821, acting
• Sir Henry Warde, 1821–1829
• Sir James Frederick Lyon, 1829–1833

  Governors of Barbados and the Windward Islands (1833–1885)

• Sir Lionel Smith, 1833–1836
• Sir Evan John Murray MacGregor, 1836–1841
• Charles Henry Darling, 1841
• Sir Charles Edward Grey, 1841–1846
• William Reid, 1846–1848
• William MacBean George Colebrooke, 1848–1856
• Francis Hincks, 1856–4 January 1862
• James Walker, 4 January 1862 – 1868
• Rawson William Rawson, 1868–1875
• Sanford Freeling, 1875, acting
• Sir John Pope Hennessy, 1875–1876
• George Cumine Strahan, 1876–1880
• D. J. Gamble, 1880, acting
• William Robinson, 1880–1885

  Governors of Barbados (1885–1966)

• Sir Charles Cameron Lees, 1885–1889
• Sir Walter Joseph Sendall, 1889–1891
• Sir James Shaw Hay, 1891–1900
• Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, November 1900 – 1904
• Sir Gilbert Thomas Carter, 14 October 1904 – 1911
• Sir Leslie Probyn, 13 February 1911 – 1918
• Sir Charles Richard Mackey O'Brien, 27 September 1918 – 1925
• Sir William Charles Fleming Robertson, 31 December 1925 – 21 January 1933
• Harry Scott Newlands, 21 January 1933 – 12 March 1933
• Sir Mark Aitchison Young, 5 August 1933 – March 1938
• Sir Eubule John Waddington, 6 August 1938 – 1941
• Sir Henry Grattan Bushe, 23 October 1941 – 1947
• Sir Hilary Rudolph Robert Blood, 5 February 1947 – 1949
• Sir Alfred Savage, 1 November 1949 – 1953
• Brigadier Sir Robert Arundell, 14 May 1953 – 1959
• Sir John Montague Stow, 8 October 1959 – 29 November 1966